• Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      That’s a very cynical view. Their country is their master, if they got invaded, like Ukraine do, then them fighting for their master(or country, if you will) is fighting for freedom.

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        21 hours ago

        Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA

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          20 hours ago

          Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”.

          Uhh no shit, nuance is important.

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          You don’t think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom?

          What were they fighting for then?

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      I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries’ safety today! They’re just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.

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      What do you consider a soldier to be? Because I have a feeling you are using a very narrow definition that excludes some of the examples I would make.

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        21 hours ago

        ww2 wasn’t to stop evil?

        It wasn’t, thinking so is a very absurd reduction of many different interests at play over 3 fronts (Africa, Europe, Asia)

        What about the civil war?

        Which one? Afghan, Lybian, Syrian, Iraqi, Rwandan, Spanish?